[Diabetes-talk] On this date in History: January 23rd 1922 Insulin Injection Aids Diabetic Patient

[tom]

 Thank you for sharing of new diabetes innovations; diabetes has now impacted my personal life and also many thousands of others in the USA and over the world.  Heads up as we all look, listen and care as it hits us personally.  

 

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Interesting, thanks.

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> Good morning all:

> I have started this date in History for my Blog, and being Diabetic, I 

> thought I would post this important date since I am also Diabetic.

> January 23, 1922:

> This comes from History.com

> At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson becomes 

> the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for 

> diabetes. Diabetes has been recognized as a distinct medical condition for 

> more than 3,000 years, but its exact cause was a mystery until the 20th 

> century. By the early 1920s, many researchers strongly suspected that 

> diabetes was caused by a malfunction in the digestive system related to 

> the pancreas gland, a small organ that sits on top of the liver. At that 

> time, the only way to treat the fatal disease was through a diet low in 

> carbohydrates and sugar and high in fat and protein. Instead of dying 

> shortly after diagnosis, this diet allowed diabetics to live--for about a 

> year.

> A breakthrough came at the University of Toronto in the summer of 1921, 

> when Canadians Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully isolated 

> insulin from canine test subjects, produced diabetic symptoms in the 

> animals, and then began a program of insulin injections that returned the 

> dogs to normalcy. On November 14, the discovery was announced to the 

> world.

> Two months later, with the support of J.J.R. MacLeod of the University of 

> Toronto, the two scientists began preparations for an insulin treatment of 

> a human subject. Enlisting the aid of biochemist J.B. Collip, they were 

> able to extract a reasonably pure formula of insulin from the pancreas of 

> cattle from slaughterhouses and used it to treat Leonard Thompson. The 

> diabetic teenager improved dramatically, and the University of Toronto 

> immediately gave pharmaceutical companies license to produce insulin, free 

> of royalties. By 1923, insulin had become widely available, saving 

> countless lives around the world, and Banting and Macleod were awarded the 

> Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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